Re: [Groff] floating keeps and tbl usage

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Vadin,

> After thinking some more I've found that fake cells may be absolutely
> 0-width, look at the following example to get the idea:
> 
> .TS
> allbox;
> cclzw(-6000u)
> cc^
> cc^
> cc^
> ccl
> cc^
> cc^
> cc^
> cc^
> cc^.
> 1       2
> ...
> 
> Note negative width specified in last column to return back.  Here is
> vertically spanned fake cells, and no need to manually draw boxes
> with "|" and "_" around table.

I ran this through `groff -t x.tr >x.ps' and get a table looking like
this.

     ___________
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|
    |_1____2_|__|
    |_3____4_|__|

Is that what you expected?


Ralph.